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Beginning of the year 1751
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Silver medal. Obverse: The Netherlands, depicted as a woman with a liberty cap on a spear and an olive branch and a sacrificial bowl, sitting under a fruit-bearing orange tree; at her feet a lion with a bundle of arrows; with her right arm she leans on an altar within an inscription; break: inscription. Reverse: Mercury with a staff and purse within an inscription; break: date.
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Credit lineAanvang van het jaar 1751. 1751. Johan George Holtzhey. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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